National ID Card: NIMC Pre Enrolment, Registration Portal and Form

Do you need more information about the NIMC pre enrolment, registration portal, and registration form? Then you’re just on the right page. Read on!

The National Identity Management Commission [NIMC] was established in 2007 to provide an assured identity system in Nigeria. The commission became operational sometime in 2012 and since then, millions of Nigerians have been enroll and millions more are yet to be enrolled.

Honestly, the inability to find these NIMC centers and the long queues a person finds when he gets to these centers are contributory reasons why many people haven’t enrolled for the National Identity Number yet irrespective of speculations that abound that the National Identity Number will become mandatory from 16t January, 2015.

If you haven’t been enrolled for this all-important identity system, it is important that you do and do so before the stipulated deadline.

To find the NIMC center close to you, click here to get the full list of centers around the country. Locate the one close to you and start your enrollment process.

If you are not comfortable with crowds or you dislike waiting or you live in the part of the country where insurgents seek any opportunity to terrorize the masses, you make want to reduce the time of your wait on getting to the centers.

To do so, you can jump-start your enrollment process by pre-enrollment.

How to Pre-Enroll for NIN

To jump-start your NIN enrollment process, follow the following steps:

  1. Go to the NIMC Pre-enrollment Portal by clicking the link here
  2. Once the page opens up in your web browser, you will be required to create an account. To create the account, you will need to have a valid email or create one on Gmail
  3. Once you’ve created your account successfully, You can now log into the portal to commence your pre-enrollment process
  4. Your pre-enrollment process will require that you answer questions about yourself. The questions are going to be presented to you in categories like Personal Details, Address Information, Parent’s Data, Next of Kin Information, Other Documents, Disabilities and Physical features. Answer these questions as correctly as you can.
  5. Revise and cross check all the information you have supplied them for any spelling errors or other errors. Save the supplied info and generate a 2D barcode that encrypts your data.
  6. Print out the generated 2D barcode and head out to the NIMC center closest to you. Please take a valid identity card with you: a driver’s license, your university ID, voter’s card or NYSC certificate.

Upon arrival at the NIMC centre, you will present the 2D barcode you printed out along with a valid ID card to the staff there. Most often than not, they will need to measure your height. After that you will present the barcode to the computer operator who will use it to retrieve your information from the database.

He will scan your valid ID card take pictures of your face and capture your finger prints. Lastly, you will be asked to sign and ‘like play like play’, you are enrolled.

PS: A transaction slip will be given to you as an acknowledgment of your enrollment. You will use it to collect your NIN and National ID card if you don’t get the message from them after two months.

How did your pre-enrollment go? Share with us in the comments and please share this important article on social media for the benefit of your friends!

85 thoughts on “National ID Card: NIMC Pre Enrolment, Registration Portal and Form”

  1. I am in the UK and I have tried to use the portal to register but keep getting an error message concerning the image .

    Is there an NIMC centre in the Nigeria High Commission in London? Or where should I complete the enrolment process for my NIN card since I am outside Nigeria?

  2. When did the pre enrollment start,what year,becos I did my at 2012 when I finish secondary school,but now my dear is my age, there’s was an error in age,I don’t longer has d phone number I use wen registering,can I register again or use affidavit to redelcare my age

  3. if you got orignal siip after the enrolled of nin.when exact time can soneone who has succefully enrolled to collect orignal plastic computerised one.is any other means to collect it

  4. I have registered since 2013 now i was serving at Kaduna but up till now i have not seen my plastic NIMC card.
    So i have change my name and when l got there there said i cannot be able to re-register again. what can i do now?

  5. I did my registration over a month ago, I was asked to come to collect my national id, i came back but my id is not processing instead it’s displaying “internal error”…please help me out.

  6. My name is Adedosun Azeez Kolawole, am from Ibadan Oyo state, please I just want to confirm may be my National ID is out. my address is 27 Akuro street olomi olunde Ibadan

  7. I did my enrollment at The Bells University Ota on the 13th of June 2017 and was ask to come back in the next two weeks which i did, and till today i done know what is happening to it as i was not given a reasonable answer. NIMC pls can you help me? I seriously need this card. I was told i cannot register twice

  8. I am Akpobasah Ejiroghene Eravwodoke,I registered NIMC with Akpobasah Ejiroghene Abel instead of the introductory name stated. What will I do to correct it. (I intend to used Akpobasah Ejiroghene Eravwodoke).

  9. I WAS TRYING TO PRE-ENROL ONLINE AND GOT STUCK ON THE PAGE WHERE IT IS REQUESTING FOR ONE OF MY PARENT’S NIN. MY DAD IS LATE AND MY MUM IS YET TO REGISTER BASED ON THE RIGOUR OF THE EXCERCISE. PLS WHAT IS THE WAY FOWARD

  10. please my next of kin is not up to 16years she is just 5years, on the form they need her National Identity no, which is not possible for me to get, so wat should do, because fix in nil and nin, still no respond

  11. Umaru charts. I’ve did my final registered since last week monday 19-06-2017 and I was ask to come back next 5 day for temporary unfortunately I went back for it and officials too me that is not ready yet that I should send a mail to helpdesknimc.gov.ng that they we tell me wat to do so pls here is my phone number 07035994229 pls oo I need the temporary one

    • I’ve did my final registered and capturing since last week Monday 19-06-2017 and I was ask to come back next 5 day for temporary unfortunately and I went back for it official too me that is not ready yet that I should send a mail to helpdesknimc.gov.ng that they we tell me wat to do so pls here is my phone munber 07035994229 so pls I need the temporary one ooo

  12. Hello, I registered for a friend some years back but did not print the barcode, we have his password but the username we can’t remember, please what do we do knowing that registering twice is a crime, please HELP!

  13. I succefuly in pre inrolment jan 18 2017 iwent there to colect temporaly and thy sai mine is internal error till now what will i do?

  14. I do not know what is wrong with your enrollement, I did mine in over a year ago. precisely 16th of Feb, 2016. I was given only a transaction slip at LA-UNILAG center.

    I have been sending mail to get my NIN, all effort prove abortive, and I was denied update on my account in the bank because they are requesting for the original ID and not slip.

    Please could help?

  15. I seem to be having the same problem with some of the people here and I haven’t seen it being addressed.
    I was finally able to do data capturing (@ NAFRC, Oshodi) despite registering since February 2016 (they refused to acknowledge School ID or even Birth Certificate @ Ikeja LGA). Expecting to get my NIN Temporary Slip later, I was told there i
    was an INTERNAL ERROR. I was told to contact NIMC help desk at helpdesk@nimc.gov.ng
    How long does it take to address the INTERNAL ERROR and for the NIN to be generated.?

  16. am convice the ask me for DOB verrification, an in my critificate of my brith, place of brith is different from where i was born so there state are nt thesame.so whT CAN I DO
    PLS

  17. I have registered since early last year but till now, all I have is temporary I D card. When will the real card be given?
    I’ve checked on a link that enable one to see if your card is available but its all futile, is there other ways one could go about this card?

    • my name is toun, I misplaced my NIN slip but I have the enrollment transaction slip. I enrolled March 2015. what can I do to get my registration number and card. urgently need your response

  18. Please how long does it take to get the temporary slip. I did my data capturing 25th May 2016 but till now, almost a month later, i still havent gotten the temporary slip. My colleagues that did theirs about the same time with me got their temporary slips just a week later. Also, how long does it take to get the plastic national ID card.

  19. I’ve registered for the ? last month and I went today to collect my temporary, the register told me that another person has thesame identity with me, so I don’t know what to do because I need it urgently.

  20. Please I have done the National Identity Card Registration since April 2015. But I have misplaced my slip. What can I do please to get my National Identity card.

    Thank you.

  21. Complement of the season, I wish to request you find out for me, I have register since last year with this slip number 3357530401 up to date i could not get my own card.

  22. have did the final registration since April last year with the temporary paper id. am surprise that till now I cant get hold of the original. Kindly advice what is going on. thanks

  23. I registered for NIN card early dis month of November. I was ask to come back after 3 days of registration to get my NIN. But unfortunately, the official told me that there’s internal error nd dat I shud com back in January next yr.So pls I dnt understand.

  24. My quest gos like this,i observed that, the enrolment we wen’t from the 2005 when this excise started, and that the ID that was given to us then,is not recognise now. this happened at the resault of, when the nigerian police force requested for such ID when presenting ‘it was then rejected that we should re-enrol for a new ID. My question is, did this has expiry date? Thanks i be please when the answer is given.

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